Improvement in carpet-fasteners



CHARLES HARTING.

Improvement in Carpet-Fasteners.

AM. rnom-uruacnrnm so. n. Y. (osaamvt's P800531) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,456, dated May 7, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HARTING, of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented an Improved Carpet-Fastener; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyin gdrawin g and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a View of a floor with a carpet fastened by the notched nail passing through the carpet and the tubular socket inserted in the floor. Fig. 2 represents the nail with one, two, or more notches or offsets, that, when driven down through the carpet and tube in the floor, it cannot work out again. Fig. 3 shows the construction of the tube, that is first fastened into an aperture made in the floor to receive and hold the pin in its place.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of the nail with one, two, or more notches or offsets on its side, in combination with the tube or cylinder, to hold the carpet down and prevent the nail from working out.

A represents a floor; B, a carpet; and C, a tubular socket or eye first inserted in an aperture of the floor. D shows the shape and construction of the nail, having one, two, or more ofi'sets, E E, so that when the nail is driven down through the carpet and floor, one of the offsets rests against the lower end of the tube C or the bottom of the floor, and the nail is prevented from working out, and holds the carpet securely in its place.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction of the nail D, having one, two, or more offsets, E E, in combination with the cylinder C, to prevent the nail from working out, and fasten the carpet more securely to the floor, as herein described.

Witnesses: CHAS. HARTING.

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, EDM. F. BROWN. 

